If you thought the 2014 mid-term elections were over … think again, although many believe a December run-off between Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy is over before it even begins. Unofficially, Republican Rob Maness got 13.8% of the vote,
Over the weekend, HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp) board member Laura Cha compared Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters to African slaves in early America, predicting that the demonstrator’s may have to “wait a while” for Communist China to allow
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that over two-thirds (67%) of Americans say President Barack Obama must substantially change the direction he is leading the nation, including 47% of Democrats who say they want Obama to substantially change
Will the Supreme Court choose to hear King v Burwell, the case regarding the delivery of subsidies in states without a state-based exchange? Today the court chose to delay its answer for at least a week. Last Friday the Supreme
ATLANTA, Georgia–Democrats in Georgia are crying foul over ruling made by a Fulton County Judge who dismissed a lawsuit filed by the NAACP and the New Georgia Project (NGP), a 501c3 founded by the state House’s Democratic minority leader, Stacey
Saudi Arabia has developed an international reputation for regularly violating women’s rights, one the nation continues to feed with a new law issued by the country’s religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,
Gov. Jerry Brown has not been campaigning much in 2014. Up roughly 20 points in the polls, he has not needed to describe his policy proposals for a 4th term, much less reach out to voters for their support. Yet
Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall claims to have had a pizza-related mishap that ended up injuring his Achilles’ tendon. Hall reported that he slipped and fell while getting pizza in his kitchen tearing his Achilles’ tendon for the second time
In Barack Obama’s last weekly address before the November election, he resorted to his usual chicanery, this time with an emphasis on the War on Women. Obama started by claiming that over the past 55 months, “Our businesses have added
Daily Caller Editor-In-Chief Tucker Carlson argues that the Republican Party should embrace the populist positions of Senator Jeff Sessions on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “Jeff Sessions is so popular he could come to work in a dress
Attorney General Kamala Harris released her second annual California Data Breach Report on October 28, which revealed hacking penetration is up 600% since 2012. This year, the Attorney General issued 12 recommendations to companies in various industries, and to the legislature
“I’m not celebrating because there is nothing to celebrate,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says. She and her nation observed her 76th birthday quietly, given the current Ebola crisis in the nation. As gifts, several groups presented the President with
This week, Russian aircraft have probed NATO defenses to a degree unseen since the Cold War. Fighter aircraft from eight NATO members were reportedly scrambled to intercept more than two dozen aircraft just on Tuesday and Wednesday. As the Wall Street
This article originally appeared on DefenseTech.org: China’s submarine fleet made its first known trip into the Indian Ocean, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. A Chinese attack submarine passed through the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia
After a two-year suspension in issuing nuclear power plant licenses, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has quietly granted long-term licensing renewals for two Limerick Generating Station Units near Philadelphia. Unit 1 is renewed until 2044 and Unit 2 until 2049. The
For the Wall Street Journal, columnist Gerald F. Seib contends that the 2014 elections are “policy-free.” But with his assessment, Seib seems to completely ignore the issue of immigration that has driven this election for months. In an October 28
The latest Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll says Republicans have soared to a mind-blowing 11 point lead, with voters saying they want a Republican-led Congress by a margin of 52-41. The generic lead for the GOP was only
Although lousy quarterly earnings would result in lower stock prices for most companies, shareholders gave Amazon a pass for over a decade as the high-tech company rapidly grew top-line sales to become America’s Everything Store. But in a year when
TechCrunch reports that the Amazon Rewards Visa Card has joined Visa, MasterCard and American Express in accepting Apple Pay for credit card transactions. Although some were surprised that Amazon would do business with Apple’s “closed garden,” Chase Bank is already working with
A plurality of likely voters in the midterms want Republicans to control Congress. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that 49% to 44% of registered voters “said they’d prefer the election to produce a Republican-led Congress, a first since the
If Republicans gain control of Congress, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) wants more guest-worker visas for high-tech and low-skilled workers in addition to a piecemeal immigration reform. Hensarling, the House Financial Services Committee Chair whom the pro-amnesty Wall Street Journal touted
The latest polling finds that Australians are overwhelmingly in support of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s plan to have a “robust” confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at this year’s G20 summit, hosted by Australia. According to a Newspoll in The
The pro-democracy demonstrations, begun on September 28 in Hong Kong, seem to be reaching their end, as Hong Kong police dismantled tents and barricades Friday morning in the Mong Kok area of the city center. Despite this temporary political defeat,
Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was booted from the Navy Reserve for doing cocaine. According to a Wall Street Journal report, “Hunter Biden, a lawyer by training who is now a managing partner at an investment company, had been commissioned
While the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has been nothing short of devastating for affected nations, at least one country has been able to exploit the crisis to garner goodwill: Cuba, whose communist government has vowed to send hundreds of
